TY - JOUR
T1 - What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention
AU - Bullis, Jacqueline R.
AU - Boettcher, Hannah
AU - Sauer-Zavala, Shannon
AU - Farchione, Todd J.
AU - Barlow, David H.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - We present a transdiagnostic definition of the commonly used, but poorly defined, term emotional disorder. This definition transcends and possibly complements traditional descriptive diagnostic categories, and candidate dimensional models of psychopathology by focusing on putative mechanisms that contribute to the onset and maintenance of disorders characterized primarily by dysfunction in the interpretation and regulation of emotion. We review three intermediate transdiagnostic mechanisms that characterize emotional disorders, such as, but not limited to, anxiety and depressive disorders, and then illustrate how this proposed definition applies to additional diagnoses beyond anxiety and depression. Implications of this new conceptualization of disorders of emotion are then discussed in the context of assessment, treatment, and prevention.
AB - We present a transdiagnostic definition of the commonly used, but poorly defined, term emotional disorder. This definition transcends and possibly complements traditional descriptive diagnostic categories, and candidate dimensional models of psychopathology by focusing on putative mechanisms that contribute to the onset and maintenance of disorders characterized primarily by dysfunction in the interpretation and regulation of emotion. We review three intermediate transdiagnostic mechanisms that characterize emotional disorders, such as, but not limited to, anxiety and depressive disorders, and then illustrate how this proposed definition applies to additional diagnoses beyond anxiety and depression. Implications of this new conceptualization of disorders of emotion are then discussed in the context of assessment, treatment, and prevention.
KW - classification
KW - comorbidity
KW - emotional disorders
KW - transdiagnostic
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U2 - 10.1111/cpsp.12278
DO - 10.1111/cpsp.12278
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85063012294
SN - 0969-5893
VL - 26
JO - Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
JF - Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
IS - 2
M1 - e12278
ER -